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Third Party Employment Branding: What Are Its Signaling Dimensions, Mechanisms, And Sources?, Brian R. Dineen, Greet Van Hoye, Filip Lievens, Lindsay Mechem Rosokha

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Massive shifts in the recruitment landscape, the continually changing nature of work and workers, and extraordinary technological progress have combined to enable unparalleled advances in how current and prospective employees receive and process information about organizations. Once the domain of internal organizational public relations and human resources (HR) teams, most employment branding has moved beyond organizations’ control. This chapter provides a conceptual framework pertaining to third party employment branding, defined as communications, claims, or status-based classifications generated by parties outside of direct company control that shape, enhance, and differentiate organizations’ images as favorable or unfavorable employers. Specifically, the authors first …

Situational Judgment Tests As Measures Of 21st Century Skills: Evidence Across Europe And Latin America, Christoph Herde, Filip Lievens, Emily G. Solberg, Harbaugh Jan L., Mark H. Strong, Gary J. Burkholder

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Over the years, various governmental, employment, and academic organizations have identified a list of skills to successfully master the challenges of the 21st century. So far, an adequate assessment of these skills across countries has remained challenging. Limitations inherent in the use of self-reports (e.g., lack of self-insight, socially desirable responding, response style bias, reference group bias, etc.) have spurred on the search for methods that could complement or even substitute self-report inventories. Situational judgment tests (SJTs) have been proposed as one of the complements/alternatives to the traditional self-report inventories. SJTs are low-fidelity simulations that confront participants with multiple domain-relevant …

Founding Conditions And Benefit Offerings: Evidence From U.S. Startups, Xiang Yi, Yang Xu

Research, Publications & Creative Work

• Purpose: This paper tries to answer the following research question: At the time of founding of a startup, what entrepreneurial conditions would influence the long-term offerings of HR benefits? To answer this question, our study examines the effects of four founding conditions of startups – total assets, founder’s education, industry experience and startup experience –on the basis of the resource-based view of firms.

• Design/methodology/approach: Using data from the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) conducted in the period 2005-2010, this paper analyzed the relationships between the founding conditions and the offering of HR benefits by 4148 new ventures during the first five …

Ecological Rationality: Fast-And-Frugal Heuristics For Managerial Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Shenghua Luan, Jochen Reb, Gerd Gigerenzer

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Heuristics are often viewed as inferior to “rational” strategies that exhaustively search and process information. Introducing the theoretical perspective of ecological rationality, we challenge this view and argue that under conditions of uncertainty common to managerial decision making, managers can actually make better decisions using fast-and-frugal heuristics. Within the context of personnel selection, we show that a heuristic called Δ-inference can more accurately predict which of two job applicants would perform better in the future than logistic regression, a prototypical rational strategy. Using data from 236 applicants at an airline company, we demonstrate in Study 1 that despite searching less …

Does Job Embeddedness Predict Turnover Intentions In Smes?, Alan Coetzer, Chutarat Inma, Paul Poisat, Janice Redmond, Craig Standing

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Purpose: There is an absence of research examining job embeddedness in SMEs. Results of job embeddedness studies may not apply to SMEs, because the process of managing a SME differs from that of the large firm. The purpose of this paper is to examine relationships between on-the-job embeddedness, as well as each of its sub-dimensions, and turnover intentions; and group cohesion, on-the-job embeddedness and turnover intentions. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from 147 employees in SMEs located in Perth, Western Australia and 350 employees from SMEs operating in four business centres in South Africa. After invariance testing, data from the two …

The Financial Impact Of High-Performance Work Practices: The Moderating Effects Of Labor Market Flexibility And Labor Market Efficiency, Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Sandra Rothenberg, Sebastian Vogt

Articles

High-performance work practices (HPWP) have been found to increase financial performance. Institutional theory suggests that this effect may be moderated by labor market institutions, such as labor market flexibility and labor market efficiency. We explore this relationship using a combined data set comprised of data on HPWP from ASSET4, financial and other company-level data from the Worldscope Database, and national institutional context data from the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report. With an international sample of roughly 20,000 archival firmyear observations across a seven-year period, we use pooled OLS regression models with robust standard errors, clustered at the £inn level. …

พุทธภาวะในพระคัมภีร์มหายานและความเข้าใจของคณะสงฆ์จีนนิกายแห่งประเทศไทย เพื่อพัฒนามนุษย์และสังคม, พระกฤตกร จุฑาเกียรติ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้ดำเนินการวิจัยเอกสารและการวิจัยสนาม ซึ่งการวิจัยเอกสารเป็นการศึกษาจากพระไตรปิฎกพากย์จีนฉบับไทโช ปรัชญาปารมิตาหฤทัยสูตร มหาปรินิรวาณสูตร และสัทธรรมปุณฑริกสูตร ส่วนการวิจัยสนามใช้ระเบียบวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพเก็บข้อมูลจากผู้ให้ข้อมูลสำคัญคือพระสงฆ์ในคณะสงฆ์จีนนิกายแห่งประเทศไทยจำนวน 24 รูป เพื่อวิเคราะห์เนื้อหาแล้วนำมาเขียนเชิงพรรณนา ผลการวิจัยพบว่าพระคัมภีร์สะท้อนประเด็นพุทธภาวะตามหลักความศรัทธาในพื้นฐานความเชื่อในภาวะเดิมแท้ที่สะอาดบริสุทธิ์และเสมอภาคของสรรพสัตว์ ส่วนหลักการศึกษาคือการเรียนรู้พุทธภาวะจากแก่นคำสอนของพระพุทธศาสนาคือความเที่ยงแท้ ความสุข ความเป็นแก่นสาร และความบริสุทธิ์ ซึ่งปรากฏอยู่ในความจริงทุกสรรพสิ่ง ทุกช่วงเวลา และทุกสถานที่ ส่วนหลักปฏิบัติคือการบ่มเพาะเมล็ดพันธ์แห่งพุทธะให้เติบโตด้วยการหยุดคิดปรุงแต่งเพื่อนำไปสู่วิถีการปฏิวัติที่เข้าถึงพุทธภาวะ ความรู้และความเข้าใจของพระสงฆ์จีนนิกายแสดงถึงหลักศรัทธาในพุทธภาวะคือการเชื่อความเป็นพุทธะที่เป็นจิตเดิมแท้ของทุกคน ส่วนหลักศึกษาคือการเรียนรู้พุทธภาวะโดยอาศัยตัวเราด้วยสติ ความคิด อารมณ์ และร่างกาย รวมถึงการศึกษาสังคมวัฒนธรรมและสื่อต่าง ๆ ส่วนหลักปฏิบัติคือการพัฒนาตนเองในทุกช่วงขณะด้วยการพิจารณาจิตใจให้เห็นความเป็นธรรมดาของสิ่งทั้งหลาย ความรู้และความเข้าใจของพระสงฆ์จีนนิกายในประเด็นพุทธภาวะต่อการพัฒนามนุษย์พบว่า การพัฒนาตนเองคือการรู้ตัวเองและขจัดจิตไม่ให้ความมัวหมองของกิเลส ช่วยให้เกิดการพัฒนาจิตใจที่พร้อมช่วยเหลือผู้อื่น ส่วนบริบทของการพัฒนาสังคมเมื่อบุคคลสามารถพัฒนาจิตใจเข้าสู่พุทธภาวะ จะช่วยให้เกิดกระทำที่ดีงามในสังคมตามกาลและโอกาส ซึ่งสามารถปฏิบัติได้ในทุกชนชาติศาสนาอย่างไร้ข้อจำกัด ก่อให้เกิดรูปแบบการกระทำของสังคมที่นำมาซึ่งความสงบสุขคือโลกอันผาสุกที่ปราศจากความวุ่นวายภายในจิตใจและภายนอกจิตใจ งานวิจัยนี้ได้ข้อค้นพบการเชื่อมโยงระหว่างพุทธภาวะที่เป็นความรู้จากพระโอษฐ์ของพระพุทธเจ้า (พระไตรปิฏก) และอรรถกถาของบูรพาจารย์ กับพุทธภาวะที่เกิดจากผู้เผยแผ่หลักคำสอนพระพุทธศาสนาในปัจจุบัน (ความเข้าใจของพระสงฆ์) สามารถนำมาประยุกต์ใช้ได้กับบริบทการพัฒนามนุษย์และสังคมด้วยการให้ความสำคัญกับการสร้างคุณภาพแห่งจิตใจของคนในสังคมตามความเป็นจริงอย่างเป็นธรรมชาติ

Canines At The Company, Felines At The Factory: The Risks And Rewards Of Incorporating Service Animals And Companion Animals Into The Workplace, Rebecca J. Huss

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

With unemployment rates at historically low levels, the ability of an employer to attract and retain productive employees is key to a company’s success. Simultaneously, the percentage of persons in the United States with disabilities is increasing. Additionally, many persons without disabilities consider allowing companion animals at work a valuable employee benefit. This Article focuses on the legal and workplace implications of incorporating service animals and companion animals at work.

This Article begins by analyzing when an employer must accommodate a request by an employee with a disability to be accompanied by a service animal at work under the Americans …

The Changing Nature Of Work, Leadership, And Organizational Culture In Future Ready Organizations, Saloni Dhir

CMC Senior Theses

Abstract

The relationship between individual and organizational performance is a key challenge for leaders in modern organizations, especially with the current disruption in technology and innovation. This thesis is a literature review and compilation of the relevant empirical evidence on various processes of industrial groups and organizational characteristics such as the changing nature of work, leadership, and company culture in detail. I investigate the complex challenges that millennials and organizations are facing in the current VUCA work environment as well as their potential responses to these changes. I map out the evolution of the concept of work and compare changes …

Are Women Executives Hurting Firm Performance? An Examination Of Gender Diversity On Firm Risk, Performance, And Executive Compensation, Krystal Diane Sung

CMC Senior Theses

In order to assess the continuing imbalance of top executives between genders, I examine the effects of gender diversity within top management teams on firm risk, performance, and executive compensation. Capitalizing on previous analysis, I apply three unique differentiators. First, I utilize current data from 2012 to 2017 from Compustat, CRSP, and ExecuComp. Second, I provide a unique subset view on a firm and individual performance of female CEOs to examine executive compensation. Third, my scope of analysis expands to S&P Composite 1500 companies. I use separate models to estimate the effect of gender diversity on firm risk by examining …

Job Embeddedness And Turnover Intentions: The Moderating Role Of Affectivity Traits, Career Stages And Perceptions Of Organisational Politics, Emmanuel Twumasi Ampofo

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The study tested the applicability of job embeddedness (JE) theory in Ghana. It also examined moderating effects of affectivity traits, career stage and perceptions of organisational politics (POP) on the JE–turnover intentions relationship. Analyses revealed that composite JE and its dimensions and sub-dimensions (except community fit) were negatively related to turnover intentions. Affectivity traits, POP and career stages moderated the JE–turnover intentions relationship. The study expands the predictive validity of JE to Ghana and adds to the few moderators that have been identified in previous studies. Strategies for increasing managerial employees’ embeddedness and reducing their turnover are proposed.

Mitigating High-Skill Brain Drain In Low-Growth Economies: An Examination Of Existing Brain-Drain Threats In New Mexico And Strategy And Policy Alternative To Address Them, Aaron T. Cowan, Kelly R. Cowan, Steven T. Walsh

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study analyzes the challenges faced by struggling or low-growth economies when they lose highly skilled human capital via the process of "brain drain" or "ability drain." Such losses pose severe potential hazards to technology-based economic development. Factors related to these phenomena are characterized and examined via literature review and mixed methodology analysis to compare and contrast potential ways to manage brain drain and even achieve positive "brain gain" through individual and business-oriented strategies and policy alternatives.

Evaluating Kentucky State Pension Plans In The 2000s And Best Practices Moving Forward, Sarah Alegria

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

The Commonwealth of Kentucky sponsors three different pension retirement systems. This includes Kentucky Employee Retirement System, Teacher’s Retirement System, and Kentucky’s Judicial Form of Retirement System. Kentucky has one of the worst funded pension retirement plans and is currently facing shortfalls of about $43 billion (PEW, 2013). Between 1998-2008, Commonwealth of Kentucky’s legislators made many detrimental policy decisions that negatively affected its Pension Retirement System. The most impacting includes:

• Enhancements of Benefits in the Nineties
• Changing Final Compensation from the average of five-years to the average of three-years
• Mandated Yearly Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA)
• Not requiring the State to …

Global Aviation System: Towards Sustainable Development, Marina P. Bonser Dr.

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

Aviation around the world has integrated into a global system. As the integration process continues, more aspects and levels of it need to be lead towards the sustainable development of the whole system via advancing strategic management, global communication proficiency, and technological expertise. It becomes essential to enrich global language (English) proficiency with cross-cultural communication competence not only for communication in the air but also for airport security, passenger and cargo services, aircraft and equipage engineering, building, and maintenance. Nowadays lower levels of management need more advanced strategic thinking and problem solving skills, and higher levels of management need global …

Application Of Expanded Technology Acceptance Model For Enhancing The Hris Usage In Smes, Serkan Bayraktaroglu, Vasfi Kahya, Erhan Atay, Habibe Ilhan

International Journal of Applied Management and Technology

Rapid developments and change have culminated new applications of information technologies. This trend is reflected in the plethora of innovative studies. Literature indicates that small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perceive human resources information systems (HRIS) as complicated and time consuming, resulting in resistance from both users and employees. The purpose of this article is to identify necessary acceptance conditions for a successful implementation of the HRIS software within SMEs in Turkey. SMEs compose 99% of all companies in Turkey. Fierce rivalry within sectors gives rise to increased technology use to gain a competitive advantage. This study contributes to an efficient …

Hr Highlights Winter 2019, Touro College Human Resources

Yearbooks and Newsletters

No abstract provided.

An Intersectional Perspective On Diversity In Environmental Regulatory Agencies: A Case Study Of Women Of Color And Their Liminal Position Of Identity In South Florida, Leah A. Ramnath

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Diversity statistics from environmental agencies nationwide reveal overall growth and improvement in gender and racial composition of employees. However, although women occupied over half of leadership and staff positions, most were white women. The Regulatory and Economic Resources office, an environmental regulatory agency in south Florida, is exceptional as a majority of their employees are women of color. Although there has been continuous development of diversity initiatives by environmental agencies nationwide, perspectives of how women of color are experiencing the environmental workplace are underrepresented when reporting diversity data.

My study aims to understand the complex role of diversity in environmental …

Factors That Influence Recruitment And Retention, Colton West, Jessica Ricks, Caroline Strachan, John Iacono, Carly Shay

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The project is to test and research the main factors that influence recruitment and retention with a focus on the company Sherwin-Williams. Specifically, this paper explores peer-reviewed articles that report on recruitment and retention findings from experts and everyday practitioners within human resources management and the retail industry. Major influences on turnover highlighted in this report include methods of pursuing talent, brand awareness and its effects on recruiting millennials and generation Z, compensation and benefits and their ability to attract and retain talent, and the integral component of job satisfaction and its role in employee and management retention. In addition, …